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Haystack
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Leichter)
Tue Aug 17 11:10:41 2010
From: Jerry Leichter <leichter@lrw.com>
To: "cryptography@metzdowd.com List" <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:57:18 -0400
The mainstream press is full of discussion for a new program,
Haystack, developed by a guy name Austin Heap and sponsored by the
Censorship Research Center as a new kind of secure proxy. See http://www.haystacknetwork.com/faq/
for some information.
As described, the program relies on some kind of steganography to hide
encrypted connections inside of connections to "approved" sites. It
was specifically designed to help Iranian dissidents maintain
connections in the face of active government efforts to locate and
block proxies and Tor entry and exit nodes.
A Google search reveals absolutely no technical information about
exactly what Haystack does or now it does it. The program is
available on multiple platforms but is closed source - the FAQ linked
to above discusses this, citing fears that making the source available
would help censors.
Anyone know anything more about what Haystack is actually doing?
-- Jerry
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